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Oskar Giltay Commits to UConn

uconnfan68 said:
We’re bringing in Stanford and Duke kids. To play in a high iq system. They’ll fit.
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It will be interesting to see how we incorporate Landrew, who’s more of a on ball create your own shot type player, not an off ball mover.
 
UCONNJACK said:
A Providence fan perspective of our new recruit and UConn.
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Stanfords campus is overrated. They’ve also abandoned caring about their revenue generating sports. It’s why they are stuck in a league having to travel across the country.
 
Trudy Gay said:
Straight up entitled thing to say, respectfully. We got to the natty game with three hobbled players, came back from countless late game deficits, but we had no dawgs? Come on man, just because people don’t bark like Cam did, doesn’t mean they aren’t dawgs.
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When you have to compete with teams putting together all star rosters, it requires intangibles to stay ahead.

Last years team definitely toughed it out in the tourney. I’m just saying we pulled some guys together that we know are going to be on the floor, to go along with Silas.
 
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MexicoHusky said:
Wingspan is the new height. We need a picture of him standing next to a few other UCONN players. All with their arms stretched out wide. But maybe 1 or 2 of them look like they aren't reaching as far as possible. And maybe a few others standing a few steps in front of the main group or a few steps behind. Then we can argue and theorize about their true wingspan. Like we sometimes do about height.
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Horizontal Hilton Units?
 
HooperScooper said:
Does Stanford still have the policy that athletes must go through an acceptable admissions pre-read before they can get a scholarship offer? I'm sure the school had lesser standards for athletes than the regular applicant pool but in general they were offering kids who were very smart. Their athletic department was still very successful under that policy. Not sure they do it like that any more. I'm going to guess they don't.
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I represented a former Stanford athlete turned entrepreneur for a couple years. Let’s just say to the extent they had any kind of policy like that for athletes it was pretty relaxed.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Speaking of mullets, this event is going on nearby me this weekend.

the FloraBama Interstate Mullet Toss. Helluva a party. Fold up and toss a dead fish from the Florida line across the border on to Alabama. The dead fish get rounded up and donated to a couple of zoos and aquariums afterwards.

For the life of me I can't stand the taste of mullet. total trash fish. Some like is smoked and then drenched in mayo and diced veggies for a smoked mullet dip.

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Great jumpers though. Love to sit and watch the mullet sky avoiding being eaten by the bigger fish. Might be good as an undersized PF with their vertical!!
 
444JR said:
Also, Reibe’s touch around the rim, although i’m sure is now proved, was absolutely awful last year and he couldn’t make up for it on the defensive end as the season progressed. I didn’t think he quit, like other posters have mentioned, but it would make sense because Reibe was a liability at the end of the year.
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Reibe’s touch around the rim was very good.
 
Chin Diesel said:
For the life of me I can't stand the taste of mullet
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husky429 said:
It's a factual take. They're recruited for their basketball and you make the academics work later. I've been through this process with kids myself. UConn has recruited players who can literally barely read.

Basketball players are also just dumb on the whole. My college team could barely tie their own shoes and we won the conference
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I really tried giving you the benefit of the doubt lmao. Nah you were actually serious
 
LIUCHusky said:
Now you are just trying to justify a dumb comment. Not like you.
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I mean he’s 100% correct. He’s not saying everyone is dumb but there are absolutely very dumb athletes at even top colleges. Every single athletic department has academic advisors that know the easy classes they can get the student athletes into and who provide A TON of academic support. When I was at UConn, I had friends on the football team and mutual friends of a bunch of basketball players and there were absolutely some kids that were nowhere close to level of even a lower tier non-athlete student. There were also some very smart ones taking rigorous academic loads and getting good grades, which always blew me away having seen first hand how much of a time commitment D1 athletics is.
 
UconnU said:
It will be interesting to see how we incorporate Landrew, who’s more of a on ball create your own shot type player, not an off ball mover.
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He will be great when defenses pressure us and get in the passing lanes. We need someone who can create off the dribble.
 
RuffRuff said:
Stanfords campus is overrated. They’ve also abandoned caring about their revenue generating sports. It’s why they are stuck in a league having to travel across the country.
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Idk man, I was just there last summer. It's pretty cool
 
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willie99 said:
If I recall correctly, Meka wanted to go to Stanford and they said no. He was signed in April, just a few months before arriving on campus
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Now that you say that I think you're right. I did a Google search and found this article. Stanford ran out of scholarships and was still waiting for Jason Collins to make his decision whether he was entering the NBA draft. Okafor didn't want to wait any longer.

 
Chin Diesel said:
Speaking of mullets, this event is going on nearby me this weekend.

the FloraBama Interstate Mullet Toss. Helluva a party. Fold up and toss a dead fish from the Florida line across the border on to Alabama. The dead fish get rounded up and donated to a couple of zoos and aquariums afterwards.

For the life of me I can't stand the taste of mullet. total trash fish. Some like is smoked and then drenched in mayo and diced veggies for a smoked mullet dip.

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Lafayette said:
No doubt Reibe’s offense will be missed but if anyone was worse than Koroma on D it was Reibe. Good Lord if he tried he fouled.

This guy is more like Reed-lite on D which is to say Rebounds and blocks…rim protector. Hopefully can become Clingan like in 3 years.

Thing is Hines is a bit of a fouler too.
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I've been trying to reassure myself that swapping Reibe for Giltay is a plus because how limited Reibe was late in the season and we still did well despite his limitations. But a lot of that had to do with how well Reed played down the stretch. We didn't need to lean on Reibe much. Can we expect the same from Hines? Doesn't seem realistic. But if Giltay is in fact a significant upgrade from Reibe then maybe Hines + Giltay = Reed + Reibe. But that's hard math for me to justify without more data on Giltay. We will see.
 
Donyell 360 said:
I've been trying to reassure myself that swapping Reibe for Giltay is a plus because how limited Reibe was late in the season and we still did well despite his limitations. But a lot of that had to do with how well Reed played down the stretch. We didn't need to lean on Reibe much. Can we expect the same from Hines? Doesn't seem realistic. But if Giltay is in fact a significant upgrade from Reibe then maybe Hines + Giltay = Reed + Reibe. But that's hard math for me to justify without more data on Giltay. We will see.
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Reed was not Reed when he came here, remember? Sanogo was not the Sanogo of MOP either early on. Both of these centers are going to be worked to death in offensive and defensive situations. Their mistakes will be addressed and corrected but it will take game time experience to get to a finished product.
Trust in Hurley, trust in our coaching staff. With all these new faces it’s a tougher job every year now.
 
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